Feathering paddle-wheel



(No Model.)

J. LANE.

v FEATHERING PADDLE WHEEL. No. 274,345. Patented Mar.20,1883.

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N. FEI'ERS, Phatvl-Rhographur. Waminglau. DVC.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEa JOSEPH LANE, OEDANVILLE, ILLINOIS.

FEATHERING PADDLE-WHEEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,345, dated March 20, 1883 Application filed June 24, 1882. {No model.)

To all whom it may concern: point, at which time the cams act to raise the Be it known that I, JOSEPH LANE, of Dancrossbars F, thereby permitting the arms d ville, in the county of Vermilion and State of to swing and the buckets to assume the proper 5 Illinois, have invented a new and useful Imangle for leaving the water edgewise. During 5 provemeut in Paddle-Wheels, of which the foltheir upward movement the locks are drawn lowing is a full, clear, and exact description. outward, thereby leaving. the buckets free to The object of my invention is to provide for fall on either side, which they will do by their feathering the buckets or paddles of paddleown gravity, until they commence to move wheels,in order that they shall enter'and leave downward at the other side, when the locks 19 the water edgewise. are again projected.

To that end my invention consists in buckets Rubber bumpers h are placed at each end of or paddles sustained upon arms that are fitted the slots in the inner rim 0 to relieve the for oscillation in a wheel of nearly the ordinary shock of contact by the arms 0?, and to prevent construction, and in combination therewith jarring and noise.

1 locks for preventing any movement of the It will be observed that from each of the buckets except at the proper time, all as hereradial arms which connect the hub with the inafter described and claimed. rims are two branches or braces on opposite Reference is to be had to the accompanying sides. These extend with their outer ends to drawings, forming a part of this specification, the rim -slots in which the ends of the arms (Z 20 in which similar letters of reference indicate oscillate, and thus form abutments to take the corresponding parts in both the figures. end-thrust or upward strain which would other- Figure l is a sectional side view of a paddlewise come entirely upon the pivots of arms d.

wheel of my improved construction, a portion The advantages of this construction are as being broken away. Fig. 2 is a transverse follows: Theoscillating paddle-arms can readi- 2 section of the same. 1y be applied to any paddle-wheel of ordinary A is the shaft; 13 B, the hubs, and D the construction by the feathering movement of arms of the wheel, fitted rigidly in the hubs B, the paddles the power that is usually lost by and provided at their outer ends with two conthe buckets entering and leaving the water So centric rims, (J 0. d d are the oscillating arms, sidewise is saved; the paddle-arms will work 30 carrying the buckets or paddles E. These arms equally well backward or forward the device at are pivoted at about their midlength in or to for operating the locks being placed at the hub the outer rim 0, and their inner ends extend of the wheel, but little power is required for into slots or mcrtises formed or provided in the their operation. 8 5 innerrim C. By this construction the arms 01 The whole construction of the wheel is dura- 3 5 are free to oscillate the distance regulated by ble in every part, and it can be made of wood the length of the slot in the inner rim. or iron, or of both combined, as may be desired.

The locking devices consist of cross-bars F, Having thus described my invention, I claim that extend transversely of the .wheel at the as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 0 inner surface of the inner rim 0, and provided 1. In a paddle-wheel, the combination, with 0 with blocks b b, that enter the slots or mortises the hubs B B, having fixed arms D and two of the rim. These bars F are hung upon the concentric rims, O O, of the oscillatingarms (1, ends of arms 0, that extend from the hubs B, pivoted at the middle to the outer rim 0, havto which they are held by suitable guides, f, ing inner ends extending into slotsof the inner 9 5 and are provided with lugs or projections g, rim 0, and carrying the buckets E, whereby I 5 that take into the groove of cams H, that are the oscillation of the arms (1 may be regulated,

attached upon the faces of the supports or as described. bearings of the shaft A. The grooves of the 2. The combination, with a paddle-wheel cams H are so shaped that the cross-bars F provided with oscillating arms d, a slotted rim, are projected, and the blocks 12 thereon there- 0, concentric with an outer rim, and the blocks '50 by moved into positionfor locking the arms cl 1), arranged in mortises of said rim, of the bars before the paddles enter the water, and while F, hung upon hub-arms e by guides f, and proin the water until they reach their lowest vided with lugs g, and the grooved cams H,

arranged on supports or bearings of the shaft A, said cam-grooves being shaped to project the cross-bars, and thus move the blocks into position for locking the arms d, as described.

3. The combination, with a paddle-wheel, of oscillating paddles, locking-frames 0 F for locking these paddles in position, the lugs g at the upper ends of the locking-frames, and the camplates H, into the groove or slot of which the lugs 9 pass, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

4. The combination, with a paddle-wheel, of the arms d (7-, pivoted in the outer rim 0, the paddles E, attached tothese arms, the locking-frames e F, the lugs g, the cam-plates H,

and the guideplatesfon the hubs, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

5. The combination, with a paddle-whee], of

the oscillating arms d, pivoted in the outer rim (3 and passing into slots or mortises in the inner rim 0, the paddles E, attached to the arms d, the blocks b, the frames 0 F, to which 

